Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process cartridge including a drum unit and a toner cartridge having a toner accommodation chamber and a waste-toner accommodation chamber
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Application No.: US16214621Application Date: 2018-12-10
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Publication No.: US10401781B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Shougo Sato , Hideshi Nishiyama
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Priority: JP2017-122412 20170622
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/12 ; G03G21/18

Abstract:
A drum cleaner in a drum unit removes toner from a photosensitive drum. A waste-toner conveyance pipe has a waste-toner discharge port and conveys toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the drum cleaner. A toner accommodation chamber accommodates toner to be supplied to a developing roller. A waste-toner accommodation chamber accommodates toner removed from the photosensitive drum. A toner cartridge rotatably moves relative to the drum unit between: a first position at which a waste-toner receiving port is separated from the waste-toner discharge port in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum unit; and a second position at which an internal space of the waste-toner accommodation chamber is in communication with an internal space of the waste-toner conveyance pipe through the waste-toner discharge port and the waste-toner receiving port in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum unit.
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